Friendship! Page #5

Synopsis: A young man from East Germany travels to San Francisco to search for his father, who fled 12 years ago.
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Director(s): Markus Goller
Production: Sony Pictures
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Year:
2010
110 min
666 Views


That is your plan?

There's also a pole. Music!

Turn the music on! Pay attention!

East German National Anthem

With Choir and Orchestra

Perfect! Madness!

Tom! Dancing... okay!

Taking off my clothes?

By all means.

In a strip club? Fine.

In a club for gays? No problem.

But NOT to the national anthem

of East Germany!

(Russian:
) Friendship!

Hello!

Pop music version of the

East German National Anthem

Let's go!

Disco Music

Ho, ho! Come! Good, Veit!

Nothing to understand.

Okay!

What?

Hold me a little tight!

Okay.

Is it working?

Okay?

Hey!

Haha! You're drunk, Veit!

I know.

I think, you're sleepy.

Yeah!

Aren't you going to

come to bed?

But I need to take care

of Tom.

Ugh! He can handle himself.

Get out of here.

Maybe you'd come too, -

- if you had watched enough.

Maybe.

Maybe... Hah! Good night!

Huh? Good night!

Night!... Night! Haha!

My friends!

Thank you.

Thank you! You are my friend!

Solidarity!

Should I hop on your back?

Tom neighs like a horse.

Yeah Hop!

Ah! I think I'm all

galloped-out.

I think so. Yeah.

Come on!

If that sign over there -

- blinks yellow -

- at the 10th blink, then you're -

- the horse and I get to be

the rider. Okay?

Zoey laughs.

Hm?

No, no!

If the 5th car,

that drives by, -

- is red, -

- then you have to kiss me!

One.

Two.

Two.

Three.

Hm!

Four.

Someone laughs.

Nothing to understand.

Shi... Sh*t!

Zoey laughs.

Oh, sorry!

Keys!

What?

Give me the car keys!

Why?

Give me the f***ing keys!

Here!

What's wrong?

Huh? You're such a f***er, Tom!

What's your problem? Did you not

notice. Or do you just not care?

Come again? What...

There where enough other women.

Come back over here!

You f***ing f***er!

Shut the f*** up!

(Both:
) Shut you the f*** up!

Veit! I like Zoey. How should

I have known, -

- that you wanted her?

Yeah! How?

You never said anything.

You never opened your mouth.

Yeah! It's always about you!

As long as YOU have fun.

Zoey! Do you not give a sh*t?

Look out! Okay?

Kiss my ass!

Yeah, fine! Drive!

Drive to your daddy! He's not

waiting for you anyway.

He never was.

Sh*t!

Ah sh*t!

You left this in the hotel.

Thanks!

And us? Hm?... Hm?

If, in the next

2 Minutes -

- a bridge and groom come out

of the church, -

- then we'll see each other again.

Thank you!

Hello! Uh...

I look for my father.

He sends postcards. Every year.

I don't know him.

I'm sorry.

And your coworkers?

The other postmen?

I don't think so.

Hundreds of people come

in here every day.

Sorry.

Okay!

Sorry!

- Thank you.

- Next!

You could have at least told

me which post office it is.

I've been running for 4 hours,

my heels are sore and... Uh...

Happy Birthday!

That's from Zoey. And also...

I'm really sorry! Really! I'm

really sorry for what I said.

You were such an a**hole, ey!

Such an a**hole.

Maybe my father won't go in

immediately when he -

- comes by here.

First, I'd say hello.

Are you scared?

Yeah.

Tom! Back there you can buy

pizza for one dollar.

Are you hungry?

Yeah. You're not?

Yeah, then it's settled.

Yeah. Cheese or sausage?

Salami!

Salami.

But hurry! Okay?

Yeah!

Excuse me!

Hello! Um!

Excuse me! Mr. Jagoda!

Mr. Jagoda! Mr. Jagoda!

Mr. Jagoda? It's crazy that

you're really here!... Ach!

Mr. Ja... You are Mr. Jagoda.

Aren't you?

What do you want from me?

Excuse me!

You don't know me.

I am Tom.

I'm here with Veit. We were

waiting over there.

He's getting pizza. Veit is here.

We came all the way from Germany.

Hello! Stay where you are!

Hey, hey! Stay... I mean, after

all these years, -

- can't you at least...

I am not his father.

Wha... You're not his father?

Here! What is that?

What's that then? I mean it says

right here:
"Veit Jagoda".

"Veit Jagoda"!

Come over here! Come here!

Listen to me!

I had been waiting for 4 years -

- for my trip to be approved. Okay?

And then, in July 1979-

- 3 men from the Stasi came

to my door.

One said that, under the right

circumstances, they would -

- approve my trip.

To approve my application.

You understand?

I didn't have to write the

postcards, only send them.

A couple birthdays a year.

A couple cards at Christmas.

No, no!

It became clear to me why I

had to send these cards.

But not until I was here, in America...

You understand?

...did I realize that I was

sending them for those who -

- were killed trying to cross

the Berlin Wall.

His father is ded. He was shot

trying to escape.

Please! Yeah?... I cannot

meet him.

Please!

Cheese, sausage! Treat every day

like a gift -

- and the world will give you

a gift in return.

Sausage.

Hm!

What's wrong?

Hm?

What's wrong?

I'm sorry, Veit!

But your... I mean -

- your father certainly tried

to do the right thing...

But...

He didn't write the postcards.

I mean... Your father isn't

alive.

He's dead.

What?

...Postcards...

simply mailed.

Muffled words

What the man said...

...Stasi... Here!

...Stasi...

Your father was...

...shot at the Berlin Wall.

I'm sorry!... Wall...

I'm sorry!

Muffled words

Nothing to understand.

No sound.

Brother of Hope?

You the German commies?

You the f***ing commies?

Man, I don't believe it!

I told my brother he was sick,

for trusting two German communists!

The keys.

You two are the nicest communists

I've ever met.

Come on in!

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